suWpfExt

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a SketchUp Ruby extension using WPF(c#)

This is a sample project to show how to build a SketchUp Ruby extension using Wpf for the user interface. It thanks to swig ( full name is Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator ), http://www.swig.org/.

There are three Visual Studio projects, suWpfExt, suWpfUI, suExtMainWrapper and one ruby project suRubyFiles. You will get three dlls compiled by Visual Studio:

suWpfExt->myExtMain.dll
suWpfUI->suWpfUI.dll
suExtMainWrapper->suExtMainWrapper.dll.

The files under suRubyFiles should be copied into SketchUp's Plugins folder, e.g.

C:\Program Files (x86)\SketchUp\SketchUp 2013\Plugins

myExtMain.dll should be copied into the extesion folder under Plugins folder, e.g.

C:\Program Files (x86)\SketchUp\SketchUp 2013\Plugins\su_myWpfExt

suWpfUI.dll and suExtMainWrapper.dll should be copied into the SketchUp folder, e.g.

C:\Program Files (x86)\SketchUp\SketchUp 2013

In complete all files should be placed as following:

C:\Program Files (x86)\SketchUp\SketchUp 2013
                                    |
                                    |--- suWpfUI.dll
                                    |
                                    |--- suExtMainWrapper.dll
                                    |
                                    |=== Plugins
                                            |
                                            |--- su_myWpfExt.rb
                                            |
                                            |=== su_myWpfExt
                                                    |
                                                    |--- myExtMain.dll
                                                    |
                                                    |--- xxx.rb
                                                    |
                                                    |--- xxx.rb
                                                    |
                                                    |... ...

Pre-Requirements:

Install Ruby version ruby-1.8.6-p287-i386-mswin32: Download from http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/rubyinstaller/ruby186-27_rc2.exe or ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/languages/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.8.6-p287-i386-mswin32.zip and install it e.g. into C:\Ruby186p287

Set Environment Variables for Ruby Go to “Advanced system settings” -> “Advanced” -> “Environment Variables” Add following three “User Variables”:

RUBY_HOME 	 C:\Ruby186p287
RUBY_INCLUDE 	 C:\Ruby186p287\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32
RUBY_LIB		 C:\Ruby186p287\lib\msvcrt-ruby18.lib

(optional, you can also add C:\Ruby186p287\bin to your PATH Variable, if you do want to run ruby or irb from command line)

Install SWIG: download the newest swig for windows (currently it is swigwin-2.0.11, http://www.swig.org/download.html) and install it e.g. into C:\swigwin-2.0.11

Set Environment Variable for SWIG

SWIG_HOME 	 C:\swigwin-2.0.11